- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 2 Years
Course details
Digital Humanities is a fast and growing interdisciplinary field at the cutting edge of 21st century research methods. It melds practices and traditions from the various disciplines of the humanities, computer science, information management and, cultural studies and design. Ideal for those interested in acquiring digital skills to build on a humanities background, the Masters in Digital Humanities is also designed to suit those with a technical background who are seeking to compliment their knowledge and build their careers in the arts and humanities.
The Masters in Digital Humanities at the National University of Ireland Maynooth is designed as an introduction to this new and dynamic research area for students from across the disciplines. The Masters delivered in collaboration with faculty from across the university, is in its fourth year, and we are now accepting applications for our fifth year.
Entry Requirements
An honours degree in a related discipline is normally required with a minimum of 2.1. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- DIGITAL LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES AND DIGITAL CURATION
- DIGITAL HUMANITIES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
- DATA MANIPULATION, IMAGING AND VISUALISATION
- DIGITAL BODIES, DIGITAL SELVES: SEX AND GENDER ONLINE
- DOING DIGITAL HISTORY
- SPECIAL TOPICS IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
- STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
- WEB INFORMATION PROCESSING
- MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY
- DATABASES
- SOFTWARE METHODS FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH
- MODELLING HUMANITIES DATA
- DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDITING
- METADATA FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH
- CREATING DIGITAL HUMANITIES ARTEFACTS
- SPECIAL TOPICS IN PRESERVATION
- REMAKING THE PHYSICAL: RECORDING, VISUALISING, AND DISSEMINATING OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE
Year 2
- SOFTWARE METHODS FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH
- DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDITING
- METADATA FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH
- PROJECT AND DISSERTATION
- MODELLING HUMANITIES DATA
- DIGITAL HUMANITIES PRACTICUM
- WEB INFORMATION PROCESSING
- MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY
- DATABASES
- CREATING DIGITAL HUMANITIES ARTEFACTS
- DIGITAL LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES AND DIGITAL CURATION
- SPECIAL TOPICS IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
- DOING DIGITAL HISTORY
- DATA MANIPULATION, IMAGING AND VISUALISATION
- DIGITAL BODIES, DIGITAL SELVES: SEX AND GENDER ONLINE
- SPECIAL TOPICS IN PRESERVATION
- REMAKING THE PHYSICAL: RECORDING, VISUALISING, AND DISSEMINATING OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
